Danny and the Juniors

Here's a fun little memento of 1957. Danny and the Juniors playing what (through the bad video quality of the era) seems to be an outdoor venue though the posted of the video didn't provide any information to confirm that assertion. I find something interesting in this video. Try to make out the dances that are being done and you'll see ECS (hard to tell if it's single or triple) and what seems to be a very relaxed rockabilly swing. What you don't see are the crazy aerials and breakneck pacing that you get nowadays. My father-in-law often bemoans how his beloved ragtime music is treated like the idea was to play it as fast as possible and I think his concern carries over to other genres. The music's got a danceable pace, not insanely fast and not dragging – it's being played at the tempo it was meant to be played at which means over a hundred people can get on the dance floor and they don't kill each other doing moves that take too much room or they're not capable of executing at the right speed. Nearly every modern swing band ought to remember this and maybe learn to read time signatures!